(The following statement was released by the rating agency)
PARIS, October 20 (Fitch) Fitch Ratings has published French
public hospital
Hospices Civils de Lyon's (HCL) Long-Term Local Currency Issuer
Default Rating
(IDR) at 'AA' and assigned Long- and Short-Term Foreign Currency
IDRs of 'AA'
and 'F1+', respectively. The Outlook is Stable.
Fitch as also assigned HCL's EUR85m French commercial paper
programme (Titres de
creances negociables; TCNs) a final short-term rating of 'F1+'.
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